The Mount Morgan Gold-field
FROM the report of Mr. R. L. Jack, Government geologist, of Maitland, on this field, laid before the Assembly, we take the following extracts:—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →South Coast · Mining & the mines
Mining & the mines, 1885
18 stories in South Coast's papers
The Mount Montana Gold-field. (Continued from our last. II.)
FROM the report of Mr. R. L. Jack, Government "geologist, on this field, laid before the Assembly, we take the following extracts:-…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Merimbula Shale and Coal Discoveries
MR. CHARLES HARPER colliery manager, supplies the following:- â Some few weeks ago near the close of the year you were good enough to notice in the coloumns…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Gold Bracelet
There it lies among the unredeemed pledges, a beautiful gold bracelet. Hardly a tale of poverty or wretchedness about that, one would think. The poor don't…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Mount Morgan Gold-field. II.-(Continued.)
I have laid down on the map the limits of the overflow deposit from the geyser. It would be next to impossible, and I believe it would be useless, to map out the limits…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Story of the Goldfields
I was always fond of the science of physiognomy. From my youth up I was noted for my proclivity for reading the character of a man by his face; and I finally became such…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Traveller. Burying a Cannibal King. the Brutal, Human Sacrifices of the Fetish Priests of the Gold Coast
A RETURNED missionary from the African gold coast, tolls a reporter of the New York World some woeful stories of the cruelties of human sacrifices practised by the fetish priests. The…
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A French authority states that carrots give horses new blood, which seems to restore them, and they may be justly claimed as the regenerator of worn-out horses. We know a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Gold Bracelet
There it lies among the unredeemed pledges, a beautiful gold bracelet. Hardly a tale of poverty or wretchedness about that, one would think. The poor don't…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The recent alleged Coal Discoveries near Merimbula. [?]
[?] the alleged recent discoveries of [?] [?] in [?] of [?] [?] by [?] the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coal on No Coal. (To the Editor of the Bega Standard.)
SIR,âThe able article signed âMining Surveyorâ in your issue of the 9th inst. has attracted much [?] in this neighborhood, [?] I think we should not be led…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poetry. Mine Enemy
MINE enemy, who time and oft, Had smitten me with words like swords, And trampled on my answer soft, Till I too smote with angry words,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Find Gold and Silver. a Man who says he has Invented a New Divining-Rod
A WELL-KNOWN contractor and builder now living in this village has recently perfected an instrument by means of which he is able, as he says, to discover the location of hidden…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →There Was Never a Baby Like Mine
As I journeyed along by a cot in the glen, I was charmed with the sweet little nest, Where a young mother sat by the wide open door…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gold under the City
THE death of po[?]o Whyte recal's a strange story. In an Australian mining camp at one of the tents sat four men— June 10, 1858— talking earnestly of their future and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Tall Tale. Gold Coin in a Dog's Skull
A DOEG'S skull in which were two $20 gold pieces and some small pieces of silver was found by Willie M'Knight near the Rockdale paper mills on last Sunday evening. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Practical Miner's Opinion of Lambing Flat Goldfields
OLD Lambing Flat diggers will read the following from the Cootumundra Herald, of the 21st August, with interest:— The following letter from W. D. P. O'Brien,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yalwal Gold-fields
THE returns from Yalwal during the past couple of weeks are becoming quitesensational. On the 26th ultime, a cake weighing 587 ounces was lodged in the E. S. and A. C. Bank This had been preceded…
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